James Whittemore

UnderCover CoverUp

Gnu Music Review YTD on TurboTunes with Nö AI at www.korcfm.com Thur. 3/12 2:55pm Pacific, repeat 3/15 1am & 3/16 10am. All tunes new releases since 1/12026. Squeze, Spoon, Alabama 3, Ray Stevens, Bob Lind, John Pizzarelli, Iron & Wine, + more. Many genres, lots of fun. Setlist from last week below.

"...it has been a nervous year and people have begun to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis."
- Tom Lehrer, 1955

Day of Noise 24 Festival, Stanford University, 2013. "First rehearsal/planning session; 5 weeks before a 1 hour live performance slot as a duo. *NO* LAPTOPs."

One of my favorite lps of all time. Bought it the week it came out, played it too much, bought another a few years later.

I'm not afraid now of the dark anymore
And many mountains now are molehills
Back in Berlin they're all well fed
I don't care
People always bored me anyway

Older than middle age but had large heat pumps put in last fall. Solar panels and large battery wall going in this spring. Also turning backyard along creek from grass lawn to bioswale with native plants this year.

We had import quadraphonic reel tapes from RCA Japan, including some Tomita. The room was a converted attic and we sat in the middle o& the 4 speakers while the chickens in Pictures at an Exhibition ran around us in perfect frenzied circles.

Home attic studio 1973 in Morris Plains, NJ. MiniMoog with external s&h and drum modules, RMI Electra-Piano, Mutron phase shifter, TEAC 3340s, 4 speakers and 4 mono amps, on other side my friend's Synthi A and full drum kit along with cassette decks, turntables, and a Tandberg tube RtoR 1/2 track.

Some gear I loaned to the new University performing arts center, PRAx, for the grand opening 6 month exhibit on technology in music.

Winter 1975 - Smiling in Snow - substitute teacher by day, office cleaner by night. Jacket from my corduroy suit, all else Levi back then. One bag holds a six-pack of cheap beer; the other a stack of TDK reel to reel tapes for recording synths on my TEAC 3340s. Morris Plains, NJ.

It's an UnderCover CoverUp this Thurs. 3/5 at 2:56pm Pacific on TurboTunes with Nö AI at www.korcfm.com 105.9 FM & online. Songs you probably know as you've never heard before - Cover tunes! Alvin Stardust, Fancy, Kentucky Colonels, Klaus Nomi, & much more.repeats Sun. 1am & Mon. 10am.

1969 album Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine by Richard Hayman with sound creation by Walter Sear. It's been so long I've forgotten how it sounds. Now where is that piece of vinyl in this mess....

They were hard to find locally, there was no internet, but demand was high mid-1970s. Customers were often schools, universities, and colleges. We sold EMS, Moog, ARP, & Oberheim. Expensive? Yes. We also did repairs, modifications, and custom builds, including one of the first Oberheim 8-voice.

Released on this day in 1973. Bought it that day at Dayton Records on 8th Street near Washington Sq. Park in NYC after classes at NYU. Huge impact, several years later I was office manager for the US EMS importer, EMSA.

Cut a rug with Napoleon Bunnyparte; Warner Brothers 1956.

Last week:

New To Me. New To You? TurboTunes on www.korcfm.com with Nö AI Thur. 2/26,at 2:55pm PST, repeats Sun. 1am, & Mon. 10am. Each track is new to me within the past 7 days. Ecletic yet organized, the hour begins with a comedic 1968 fairy tale featuring songwriter Paul Williams before he was famous.

Music in 12 Parts, Philip Glass. Seriously, I have used in working with kids on the spectrum in the past. or his Solo Piano album if she hates the hectic.

I think this was written and posted by AI, no?

Georgia Guidestones:

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Not with a bang but with a whimper: "Google announced on Wednesday that it’s adding a music-generation feature to the Gemini app... describe the song you want to create, and the app will generate a track along with lyrics..." techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/g...

TurboTunes on www.korcfm.com with Nö AI features W.A.P. music (WhackyArtsyProg) King Crimson, Happy The Man, Martin Orford, Utopia, Sylvan, Philip Glass, McDonald & Giles. Turn on, drop out, & tune in for a journey to the future of the past. Thur. 2/19 at 2:55pm PST, repeats Sun. 1am, & Mon. 10am

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